All Episodes

Becoming Brigham Episode 34: Feed Them, Don’t Fight Them

Becoming Brigham Episode 33: From Stolen Shirt to Open War?

Interpreter Insights Podcast — September 7, 2026

Conversations with Interpreter: ‘Alisi K. Langi: Named and Unnamed Women in the Small Plates

Glaciers, Plant Succession, and the Sheer Wonder of It All

Becoming Brigham Episode 32: Religious Kindred but Savage Enemies?

Interpreter Insights Podcast — August 27, 2026

Becoming Brigham Episode 31: Lives of Their Own

Conversations with Interpreter: Spencer Kraus: Transliteration in the Book of Mormon and Other Translations

Progressing through Gradations of Holiness in the Temple: 2 Nephi 4:32–35 as a Hymn Inspired by Ritual

Interpreter Insights Podcast — August 20, 2026

Becoming Brigham Episode 30: Shared Burden, Shared Strength

Becoming Brigham Episode 29: Inside the Lion’s House

Conversations with Interpreter: Jennifer Lane — Part 2: Jesus as Kinsman–Redeemer in the Small Plates

Becoming Brigham Episode 28: To See God Face to Face

40 Questions on Latter-day Saint Religion: Sincere, Frequently Respectful, Too Often Polemical

Interpreter Insights Podcast — July 30, 2026

Becoming Brigham Episode 27: Zion’s Classroom — Apostles in the Making

Conversations with Interpreter: Jennifer Lane — Part 1: Hesed and the Redemption of Abraham

Probing Our Culture with Problematic Data

Theology as Pretext

Becoming Brigham Episode 26: Interpreter’s Witnesses — Behind the Scenes

The Literary Structure of Alma 16

Interpreter Insights Podcast — July 16, 2026

Becoming Brigham Episode 25: The Kindness of Quincy

Conversations with Interpreter: Ryan Davis — Bearing Testimony in Hebrew

Becoming Brigham Episode 24: Leave No Poor Behind

Entry to the Temple Is through the Principles of the Beatitudes

Interpreter Insights Podcast — July 2, 2026

Becoming Brigham Episode 23: Liberty—Jail or Temple?

Conversations with Interpreter: David Calabro — An Early Christian Context for the Book of Moses

Mi’kmaq, Meldrum, May, and Mark

The Opposite of Faith Is not Doubt: The Spiritual Gift of Doubt

Interpreter Insights Podcast — June 25, 2026: The Constitution Hanging by a Thread

Becoming Brigham Episode 22: Out of the Storm

Becoming Brigham Episode 21: Zion’s Camp — Rescue or Ruin?

Conversations with Interpreter: Avram and Thora Shannon — The Loss of Jesus in the Small Plates of Nephi

A Proposed Kinship between Alma2 and Nephihah

Interpreter Insights Podcast — June 11, 2026

Becoming Brigham Interviews: Sam Weston

Becoming Brigham Episode 20: Peace or Violence? Part Two

A Scientific Evaluation of the Zelph Revelation

Interpreter Insights Podcast — June 4, 2026: Brigham Young

Becoming Brigham Episode 19: Another Birthday! Celebrating a 225 Year Legacy

Dynastic Dynamics: Competing Bloodlines and Political Legitimacy in the Book of Mormon

Interpreter Insights Podcast — May 28, 2026

Becoming Brigham Episode 18: Peace or Violence?

Joseph Smith and the Twin Priesthood Keys of Authority and Knowledge

Interpreter Insights Podcast — May 21, 2026: Seers and Stones: The Translation of the Book of Mormon as Divine Visions of an Old-Time Seer

Becoming Brigham Episode 17: A People of Peace?

Atop the Rameumptom

Interpreter Insights Podcast — May 14, 2026

Becoming Brigham Episode 16: Sweeter than Honey

Multiple Degrees within the Celestial, Terrestrial, and Telestial Kingdoms

Becoming Brigham Episode 15: The Lion and the Lady

Color in the Book of Mormon

Interpreter Insights Podcast — April 30, 2026: Mother in Heaven

Becoming Brigham Episode 14: The Prophet’s Shadow

Conversations with Interpreter: Kent Jackson — The Lord Gave Cain a Sign

A New Reading of Lehi: A Rhetorical Context for Understanding His Teachings about the Fall of Adam and Eve

Interpreter Insights Podcast — April 24, 2026: Spencer Kraus

Becoming Brigham Episode 13: Joseph, Joseph, Joseph!

Conversations with Interpreter: Jonathon Riley — Hebraisms in the Book of Moses

Gamma Marks: Recent Works Relevant to Their Study

Interpreter Insights Podcast — April 16, 2026: The Closeness of Those Beyond the Veil

Becoming Brigham Episode 12: Deep Waters

Conversations with Interpreter: John Cochran II and Joseph Cochran — Covenant Thresholds

Interpreter Insights Podcast — April 9, 2026

Becoming Brigham Episode 11: In Search of a Prophet

Conversations with Interpreter: Daniel Peterson and Becoming Brigham

Easter and Doctrine and Covenants 138: Our Harrowing of Hell, Our Descensus Christi ad Inferos, Our Anastasis

Interpreter Insights Podcast — April 2, 2026: Stanford Carmack and the language of the Book of Mormon

Becoming Brigham Episode 10: Gifts and Prophecies – Part One

Conversations with Interpreter: Matthew Bowen and Upon All Nations: Nephi and Isaiah on the Nations

Interpreter Insights Podcast — March 26, 2026

Becoming Brigham Episode 9: Did Brigham really have the Gift of Tongues when he first met Joseph Smith?

Conversations with Interpreter: Jeff Bradshaw and Two New Books on Abraham and Sarah

A Fresh Investigation of Latter-day Saint Theology

Interpreter Insights Podcast — March 19, 2026: Joseph’s Priesthood Garment and Marriage to Aseneth

Becoming Brigham Episode 8: Was Brigham Young unsure about the Book of Mormon?

Conversations with Interpreter: Matt Bowen and “Inspired by a Better Cause”

An Unsystematic Dive into Gospel Questions

Interpreter Insights Podcast — March 12, 2026 with John Gee

Becoming Brigham Episode 7: Young Brigham Young, Part Two

Conversations with Interpreter Episode 6 Stephen Smoot: The Pearl of Great Price – A Study Edition for Latter-day Saints

Interpreter Insights Podcast — March 5, 2026 with Brent Schmidt

Becoming Brigham Episode 6: Young Brigham Young, Part One

Conversations with Interpreter Episode 5: Matthew Bowen, “Naming and Narrative Irony in Mosiah 23”

Where Will We Turn for Peace?

The Lord Gave Cain a Sign

Interpreter Insights Podcast — February 26, 2026 with John Thompson

Becoming Brigham Episode 5

Conversations with Interpreter: Episode 4

Alma or Mormon? The Voice of Alma 29

Interpreter Insights Podcast — February 19, 2026

Becoming Brigham Episode 4

Conversations with Interpreter: Episode 3

Epiphanies and Reasonings: Compatibility between Evolutionary Biology and Divine Creation

Interpreter Insights Podcast — February 12, 2026

Becoming Brigham Episode 3

Conversations with Interpreter: Episode 2

Interpreter Insights Podcast — February 5, 2026

Becoming Brigham Episode 2

Conversations with Interpreter: Episode 1

True and Living

Interpreter Insights Podcast — January 29, 2026

Becoming Brigham Episode 1

“They Did Multiply and Prosper Exceedingly in the Land of Helam”: Naming and Narrative Irony in Mosiah 23

Interpreter Insights Podcast — January 22, 2026

Interpreter Insights Podcast — January 15, 2026

Early Anti-Mormonism in Great Britain, 1837–1842

Interpreter Insights Podcast — January 8, 2026

Parallels between the Book of Moses and the Book of Mormon, Part 2: The Updated List of 146 Parallels

Interpreter Insights Podcast — January 1, 2026

Parallels between the Book of Moses and the Book of Mormon, Part 1: Details of Their Distribution and Relationships to the JST

Christmas Stars: Inviting Us to Come to Christ

Interpreter Podcast — December 15, 2025

Interpreter Come, Follow Me Podcast: Christmas for December 22 – 28

Irregular Kings and Precious Things: Viewing Nephi and Joseph Smith through the Lens of Ancient Near Eastern Kingship

Interpreter Podcast — December 9, 2025

Interpreter Come, Follow Me Podcast: The Family: A Proclamation to the World , December 5 – 21

“Upon All the Nations”: The gôyim in Nephi’s Rendition of Isaiah 2 (2 Nephi 12) in Literary Context

Interpreter Podcast — December 4, 2025

Interpreter Come, Follow Me Podcast: The Articles of Faith and Official Declarations 1 and 2 for December 8 – 14

Intellectual Colonialism and Air Bud Theology: More on Queer Theory and the Church of Jesus Christ

Interpreter Podcast — November 24, 2025

Interpreter Come, Follow Me Podcast: Doctrine & Covenants 137 – 138 for December 1 – 7

Of Book of Mormon Stories—and Giants

Interpreter Podcast — November 20, 2025

Interpreter Come, Follow Me Podcast: Doctrine & Covenants 135 – 136 for November 24 – 30

Finding the Elect Lady

Interpreter Podcast — November 6, 2025

Interpreter Come, Follow Me Podcast: Doctrine & Covenants 133 – 134 for November 17 – 23

Historical and Stylometric Evidence for the Authorship of Doctrine and Covenants 132

Interpreter Podcast — November 5, 2025

Interpreter Come, Follow Me Podcast: Doctrine & Covenants 129 – 132 for November 10 – 16

“A Voice of Warning”

Interpreter Podcast — October 29, 2025

Interpreter Come, Follow Me Podcast: Doctrine & Covenants 125 – 128 for November 3 – 9

“His Secret is with the Righteous”: Instructional Wisdom in the Book of Mormon

Interpreter Podcast — October 15, 2025

Interpreter Come, Follow Me Podcast: Doctrine & Covenants 124 for October 27 – November 2

The Literary Structure of Alma 21–22

Interpreter Podcast — September 23, 2025

Interpreter Come, Follow Me Podcast: Doctrine & Covenants 121–123 for October 20 – 26

Reading Disciple Consistently As New-world Apostle in the Book of Mormon

Interpreter Podcast — October 7, 2025

Interpreter Podcast — October 5, 2025

Interpreter Come, Follow Me Podcast: Doctrine & Covenants 115–120 for October 13 – 19

Interpreter Podcast — September 24, 2025

Some Good Questions, but Large Inferences from Tidbits

Interpreter Come, Follow Me Podcast: Doctrine & Covenants 111–114 for October 6 – 12

Interpreter Podcast — September 14, 2025

A Textual Comparison of Masonic Rites and the LDS Temple Endowment

Interpreter Come, Follow Me Podcast: Doctrine & Covenants 109–110 for September 29 – October 5

Interpreter Podcast — September 7, 2025